There can be a certain familiarity to Roman towns. During the heyday of the Empire, such settlements were essential for administering conquered…
In the museum world’s equivalent of finding an heirloom in the attic, the curators at Torquay museum discovered they own an ancient…
A multi-million dollar project to help preserve Luxor’s world-famous temples has resumed after being delayed for nine months by the Egyptian revolution.…
Museums of the world not to be missed No matter how unlikely the subject, there is bound to be a museum devoted…
Handaxes and flakes recovered from the shores of Lake Turkana, in the remote north- western part of Kenya, are being hailed as…
Imagine being played a DVD of Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Russell Wallace discussing their views on evolution, or Boucher de…
Heinrich Schliemann has been described as ‘the creator of prehistoric Greek archaeology’, but he was an amateur when he took up archaeology…
I tend to sum countries up by how they treat their archaeological sites and, in common with everyone I know, their…
According to Oscar Wilde, ‘the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it’. With the arrival this…
Studies of the past tend to focus on the great sweeps of history, on the elite, and on their monumental buildings. But…
The main challenge of studying pre-Christian Scandinavia is that written sources describing the period mainly post-date the region’s official conversion by centuries.…
Prompted by a session on the subject at an annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, the editors, working on the…
To many archaeologists, Northern European bogs mean votive offerings of Iron Age weapons. This book focuses on four sites renowned for their…